Top Notes 
Laurel
Cardamom
Bergamot
Lemon
Juxfriplon
Heart Notes 
Carnation
Ylang-ylang
Jasmine
Lily of the valley
Violet
Rose
Base Notes 
Tree moss
Sandalwood
Benzoin
Cedarwood
06/03/2025
ClaireV
969 Reviews
ClaireV
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Florid barbershop scent for the trad male groomer
A dandified floral barbershop affair, full of soapy amber, woods, and bay rhum spicing. It is impressively dense and well-built, with a bitter mossiness running through it that practically posts signage around it saying, women, approach at your own risk. I imagine someone like Ron Swanson applying it, its frosted bottle the sole toiletry on a bleak-looking cabinet besides for, say, a withered bar of green soap and a rusty ole razor.
What I mean to say that it smells masculine and solid to me, and old-fashioned in a nice way, like Ettore Bugatti or Obsession Pour Homme or Boucheron Jaipur Pour Homme - fragrances that smell like something a man slaps on after a wet shave even though they are stuffed with tons of flowers, desert-like spices, and have an ostentatiously powdery drydown. The difference is, to me, that none of these fragrances feel sweet or creamy, which are the factors that I feel nudge us into feminine territory. Sutra Ylang is aromatic, not creamy, and sour-herbal-spicy rather than milky chai tea spicy. But if you are a woman who wears Coco and Opium, then you are used to this slightly bitter, spicy vein, which means that Sutra Ylang won't be too far out of your comfort zone.
What I mean to say that it smells masculine and solid to me, and old-fashioned in a nice way, like Ettore Bugatti or Obsession Pour Homme or Boucheron Jaipur Pour Homme - fragrances that smell like something a man slaps on after a wet shave even though they are stuffed with tons of flowers, desert-like spices, and have an ostentatiously powdery drydown. The difference is, to me, that none of these fragrances feel sweet or creamy, which are the factors that I feel nudge us into feminine territory. Sutra Ylang is aromatic, not creamy, and sour-herbal-spicy rather than milky chai tea spicy. But if you are a woman who wears Coco and Opium, then you are used to this slightly bitter, spicy vein, which means that Sutra Ylang won't be too far out of your comfort zone.
KimJong
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